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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

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TAXING FOR HEALTH

leave

to you in that a coward."

position. When My wife said this to me yes- I signed Shep- terday.

Three months ago I signed a manifesto in which I promised never to take part in war in any circumstances.

My brother, who brought it, said, "Don't sign if you don't mean it, it's all or nothing."

But I did mean it. Then I met a man who was a conscientious objector in 1916 and went to pri-

He told me:

SOIL

pard's paper it appeared to be only an ethical question. Now it seems much more complicat- ed. I believe my first duty is to

and the

baby and I think perhaps it may be necessary t Ku into the army,"

My wife look- ed up from her knitting and said quietly, "If

"It isn't yourself they hurt a much, though that's bad enough.

you go you will It's your wife and children and be a coward, your parents and brothers and sisters, but especially your wife and children."

So yesterday I told my wife, "I'm not so sure about the peace

manifesto."

We

ANN:

she stands

to lose

"I shouldn't take a penny of "He would be like a civilian ed to heroism by poisonous your pay. You needn't worry who kills someone in peacetime clouds of lies.

"Perhaps they had to die as about us.

should manage because he really doesn't know somehow. Don't you think what he is duing. We are horri- Christ died to show the pathway there's something rather funny fed but we don't blame him or to the truth. At any rate the in suddenly treating me like a hang him. It would be different flame which consumed them has defenceless child-wife? If you for you. You Would know shone an everlasting light on the go back on Sheppard and your exactly what you were doing." wickedness and folly of war." self you won't be able to pre- tend you are doing it for my sake, that is, if you dare go back."

☆

SHE glanced at the book-

*

My wife

stuck her SHE replied, "If you

needles into the ball shelves. The firelight weren't sure why did

among the names; of wool and placed them in her Willie warned you." I said, "Are you during me to shone you sign?

go to prison? In the last war Sassoon, Wilfrid Owen, Norman basket.

"Of course," 1 said, “everyone Mottram, Remarque, "I was sure of myself, but 1 women thought that fit men of Angell,

me If all people were hadn't thought of you and the

baby.

29 were cowards if they didn't Zweig, Henry Williamson, Bur- tells

Christlike there would be no

When it is realised, as may be discovered from perusing the Colony's official health bulletin for the week ending January 1. that 12 persons die here daily at this time of year from tuber- culosis alone--and the figure is very probably higher, for the disease has just been made

go to the front. Now you will busse, V. M. Yeates, Crozier, notifiable-it is brought to us

think me a coward if I do, and Blunden, Grenfell, Hemingway, war, but they aren't and you "If war broke out it is almost if I don't the majority will still Tomlinson, Aldington, Brittain, have to face facts as they are." |that the task of improving the certain there would be conscrip- think I am, so it seems I shall be they stretched into the shadows. She replied, "Don't you think

health of Hongkong is a titanic tion immediately. There would whatever I do."

"They

have told you, and there were plenty of people who be only one of two things to do-- "I would rather you were a scores of other men and women, said that to Christ. It has been one. That should not discourage calist or refuse and go to pri- coward than a murderer," she and your own experience. You said to every person who has the work.

son, or perhaps be shot. Winter said.

would have no excuse for not preached His way of life." has told me how his wife and

written "Would it be murder to kill knowing. They have

"But what would you do to At first glance the health people suffered when he was sent someone as a soklier?”

the story of the next war, too. prevent war?"

She smiled: "Nothing." Estatisties seem to present to us

|-to-Wormwood-Scrubs-I-don't-Her-needles-stopper-clacking-fit-comes-you-know.it.will.come.

"I shouldn't do anything to think you would be afraid of "If an invading soldier or.air- for the same reasons and end in insurmountable difliculty.scandal and ostracism and abuse. man killed Ann I should consider the same futility.

prevent it. Then there could How can Hongkong ever hope to But another problem has occur- it murder, but the man who kill- "I don't want you to protect be an invasion but no war. They wipe out tuberculosis, for in-red to me.

ed her might never have thought us by killing other women's hus- would have no one to fight. They about it like "They don't

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do it but were blinded and gond- look at the shops. They would be among people with a strange language and be driven back among themselves or society. They would have nothing to do with their guns and munitions. I believe they would soon refuse to obey those who had placed them in such a ridiculous posi--

READIEST RECKONER

I

MAN WHO KNOWS EVERY DATE FOR 100 YEARS

MET in London the man who is down, First line:-Nine, eight, seven. tion and pack up and go home. probably

"An international discussion the mast amazing...

Thus he went genlus at figures in the world, a

on until he had on the problems which provok- When it is remembered that human "automatic_calculator."

finished. Then he told me, without land faced the same grave task at the time of the Coronation | artist, Olgo, greeted me with the ja spirul, starting at the five in the necessary, but the statesmen Cheerful little Hungarian cabaret having looked at the figures, to draw ed the invasion would still be in half a hundred places. And of Queen Victoria--not so long words, "What is the date of your fourth row. I did as I was told. would not be talking over the

a remarkable change has been

once

birthday?"

I told him.

I

said. "Dut

sleep

number now and asked me to re- I did so,

member it to tell you what it was "Now," he said, "tell me the first in six months time I should do so. Bgure of the answer, and the total number of figures in it"

Again I did as i was told, and I asked him how he did it.

fle

Master of Tongues

"Now," he said, "I will tell you bodies of millions of dead, ago-the death rate in Britain

all the figures the spiral goes through. effected in the health of that was roughly 22 per 1,000 an-

"I believe if we behaved like they "It was a Thursday," he said with Here

are:-Five, four, one * nation within living memory.nually and that when

out a moment's pause. "I know the two... Right up to the nine that we should, in effect, para- King date of every day for the last thou at the beginning of the top row he lyse every foreign soldier so that

went. Some diseases which were once George VI was crowned it had sand years."

he couldn't lift a finger to fire a "Marvellous!“ Such scourge have almost entire been cut in half, it gives one one must expect

are the amazing statements

at niceting

this don't you ever get mixed up with gun or drop a bomb. The policy ly disappeared, and the general cause to hope that

human calculating machine.

the figures from the day before?" of turning the other check is not even here

"No. I forget everything that hap-only Christian, it is more power- spread of knowledge of the part conditions may alter and lives he continued,

"Not only do I remember dates," pened yesterday outside my personal ful than the biggest bomb,

"but I remember

affales und the things I must remem- played by proper diet, sunlight,

figures. Write down may be spared.

number ber. Otherwise I shouldn't without my seeing it, and raise it to like a log as I do. If you gave me a fresh air and cleanliness, has

the third power." But these improvements in.

"I anyone accused_me worked wonders. To a large

of not doing my duty Britain, our example, have-not extent infectious diseases, which

to my country in time of war 1 been accomplished without cast.

should say, "We are both out to played such Invoc

defeat the enemy.

Our only among smaller children, have and they cannot be made here

'I can speak Hungarian, Slav lan-difference is our method.' without expenditure. Social and been divbreed from much

told me that he knew the guages, French, German, Scandina "You may or may not win by health services in Britain in serond, third, and fourth powers of vian languages, and English. of their Lerror. Victorious

every number. There is a part of 1910 cost £55,000,000 and have his brain that absorbs Agures like him to give me the numbers of the other side and losing mil- "Sometimes when I meet a linguist killing and maiming millions on battles have been fought with the great "white scourge ever since been devoted largely absorbs ink. It is no his square in us many languages as lions on your own. I believe my possible. I then give them back_to} way would bring certain victory him in the order that he gave them." -tuberenlosis--and the death

born babies. Now the same, or

Precious Brain

The Great Memory showed me without that appalling loss. rate from this cause, both of

some cuttings that were not dated. That would be not only a trium- rather the improved services, It is this part of his-brain that in-"I don't date anything," he said, "Iphant moral achievement but a the respiratory and non-respira-

terested New York curgeons so much remember all my dutcs and teletriumphant achievemont or tory variety-is lower now in/cost Britain £427,000,000 - that they offered him £5,000 so that phone numbers, and have done no

46 well.. for the last thirty years. That a diplomatic strategy Britain than ever before. Eventually. But the lives of 42,000- they may examine it after death.

Your method has always been. "I will show you how easy figures since I was blx!" without actually tackling the odd babies are saved each year, are," he said.

Just before I went 1 though Indopted and drowned successive "Write down eight rows of eight would trip up the Great Mind. nations in blood. The method of thing directly, Hongkong has to say nothing of the lives of

"What were the figures in the fifth absolute paciflam has never been hundreds of mothers. vastly Improved the chances of

Revenue can have no better the average incipient victim of tuberculosis, This is a clean use than the safeguarding of Colony, broadly speaking. But the health of a population. In could be elenner, and it is fact, this should be a first con- largely up to the people them- |sideration in a community's planį aelves to bring about the changes of taxation.

to the care of mothers and new-

cfort to blin.

figures without my seeing them."

I did as follows:-

007 2 3 160 1947 2007 2 5 2 0 0 761 RAD 21510 27 5 4 9 0 1 13270301 07 2 4501 5.7.0.0.0.0.43 "Now read them to me." I read. "Now I will tell you what you wrole

row?" naked.

20 7 5 4 9 6 1," came the reply tried." before I had time to see if he was correct.

"Before

you accuse

mo of

In desperation, I Enid. "What was cowardice ask yourself, which

demands the greater. the fifth figure in the seventh row?" Way

"Four!" came the prompt reply. courage from a nation?"

It was too much. And to think

She got up and moved to the that I was onge top of my form in door, "Well, what will you have:- arithmetic!

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